Often we don’t know what to do for ourselves or for those we love when a cold, flu, bronchitis or other acute ailment afflicts us. Learn various herbal baths, foot baths, aromas, foods and how to make nourishing soups that can help you heal from an illness.
Candis will discuss the various conditions that can affect the heart and circulation. She will show you ways to help keep the circulation strong and various herbs that can help with regulating the heart as well as herbs for the emotional heart. This is an experiential hands-on class. Many herbs will be sampled and students will make herbal formulas to take home.
Traditional medicine views the digestive system as the root of our health. Current science supports this concept, as we continue to understand the complex role of digestive function, including the digestive microbiome, on overall health. This class will focus on building a healthy digestive system through herbs, diet and positive habits. The format will include lecture, hands-on activities, herbal recipes and the materials needed to make herbal preparations to take home.
Each season brings unique challenges and opportunities for our well-being. This class will offer techniques for using herbs, diet, and good habits for optimizing health and avoiding illness in the colder, darker months of the year. The class will include lecture, demonstration and hands-on creation of herbal remedies for yourself or for holiday gifts.
This class will delve deeper into the art and science of herbal remedies. We will discuss approaches to combining herbs and effectively extracting medicinal properties and broaden our discussion and practice in making herbal preparations, including creams and advanced tinctures. Students will take home products of their own creation.
Candis will discuss the seasons of our lives, how our energy changes, how to support our energy as we grow older and how to rebuild after operations, trauma and accidents. We will review many herbal “tonic” recipes. Tonic herbs are those that help to fortify, rebuild and strengthen our systems if used over time. This class will focus on tonic herbs in the Chinese and Ayurvedic healing systems.
Herbs in the home garden can add flavor to your meals, home remedies to your medicine cabinet, and beauty, diversity and beneficial insect habitat to your landscape. This hands-on class offers instructions for growing an array of herbs, and tips for harvesting and using what you grow.
Learn how to bring medicinal plants into your everyday life to promote overall wellness and address minor illnesses and injuries. We will discuss the healing properties of several common herbs, and how to incorporate them through cooking, everyday herbal tonics and simple home remedies to use when ailments arise.
Aromatherapy is the practice of using the natural oils extracted from plants for healing body, mind and spirit. This class will give you the foundation of using essential oils: extraction techniques, categories and properties, common uses and the types of tools, equipment and carrier agents used in aromatherapy.
Menopause is the gateway to a major life cycle for women. There are physical, emotional and psychological changes that women experience. Most people talk about hot flashes and memory lapses, but there are so many more aspects of this transition. We will talk about how this is a time of great change in a woman’s life and the foods, herbs and oils that can help her traverse this journey through the wilderness to the new self.
